WrestleMania was running wild on you
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who you really are
I don't think this actually gives you additional insight into their life, lol. We still don't know the important questions: Do they fart when they sit down? How many chinchillas do they own? What's their favorite medieval weapon? If they could en passant in real life, when would they use it?
This is the guy that saved c/vegan on .world after the fiasco where the community basically imploded and moved to ML land. I'm not even a vegan (or vegetarian), but I know that :). Technician has done some Lemmy work.
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The fuck does “nobody” add to this?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, this meme would have made more sense of it went:
CELEBRITY:
*dies*
WIKIPEDIA EDITORS:
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Who gave you that rank? Do you get monies?
It's a title given to Spanish editors I think.
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I assume to dodge the oncoming bullet from the other side of the duel
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The fuck does “nobody” add to this?
Makes it a solution to a problem that didn't exist.
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Wikipedia senior editor here to answer all your dumbest Wikipedia-related questions. Fire away.
You must have a script to make everything past tense when they kick the can, no?
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Can someone help me complete this family tree?
MisterMoo --> tatann --> nialv7
wrote last edited by [email protected]I fucked nialv7’s mom, does that help? I was just trying to be helpful
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This is the guy that saved c/vegan on .world after the fiasco where the community basically imploded and moved to ML land. I'm not even a vegan (or vegetarian), but I know that :). Technician has done some Lemmy work.
If anyone deserves credit for saving the comm, it'd be @[email protected]. She doesn't post there anymore owing to disagreements with
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You must have a script to make everything past tense when they kick the can, no?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sometimes you'd think so. It's actually more delayed than you'd think; major celebrities are often several minutes between major article publication and edit, when theoretically you could speedrun that kind of edit with a source in about two minutes from time of reading the article.
You might've seen this, but the editor who changed Henry Kissinger to "was" became such a social media phenomenon that day that her talk page was flooded with "congratulations". An administrator (being responsible, tbf) had to step in and remove gravedancing, my own included.
Shame this kind of edit isn't consistent or "Was%" would be a really fun speedrun. "Banned from Club Penguin%" energy.
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Why did it take Wikipedia so long to add dark mode?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm going to refer you to Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost, but if there's jargon in there that makes no sense, I can clarify. The TL;DR is that the skin Vector (2022) (an update from Vector (2010)) made the interface more flexible to customization, logged-out users could now have preferences, and Wikipedia's design was all over the place after 20 years of largely decentralized development.
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The fuck does “nobody” add to this?
Two possibilities.
1: It's the calm before the storm. It implies nobody was egging this on. People were simply going on with their lives, when suddenly a thing happens. "Out of nowhere." It's a common trope both visually and in writing.
2: It makes autistic people mad.
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If anyone deserves credit for saving the comm, it'd be @[email protected]. She doesn't post there anymore owing to disagreements with
.world(now posting in other vegan comms), but for a long time, she was the beating heart of /c/vegan.Sorry for a second I confused sunshine and beaver and was gonna argue with you lol. I just remember you made a very sane first mod post there or I would have just blocked the community.
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favorite edit you ever made?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't have a specific favorite singular edit. If I did, it'd have to be the time I nominated 'David Joyner (business executive)' for deletion shortly after the killing of Brian Thompson. Whereas I could've waited for things to cool down, I didn't want to politick. This circulated around BlueSky, well-meaning people who didn't understand how we handle article inclusion brigaded the discussion, and some moron writing for Gizmodo accused me personally of being a paid CVS shill conspiring to hide Joyner's name (despite the fact that this name was proudly displayed on CVS' website as the first result in a search engine). The situation was just so stupid and made me lose some faith in Gizmodo's ability to do basic research.
Favorite series of edits? Definitely the time in 2021 I started a good article review for the article 'Marjorie Taylor Greene' and it got so out-of-hand that I ended up overhauling the entire thing because I kept finding problems (well outside the scope of a GA review). I thought it was really good by the time I was done, and it was really satisfying reading an article where MTG bitched at some local rally about her Wikipedia article – a sign I'd done something right.
These two examples aren't representative of my edits at all.
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It's called a meme format, grandpa.
An incorrectly used one, sure.
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I fucked nialv7’s mom, does that help? I was just trying to be helpful
We all were, son.
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Ozzy Osbourne's death was first announced to UK media, first article i could find came from the BBC and released 8:11pm
how is it that a Wikipedia editor outsprinted the first article and made the first death edit at 8:08pm?
Some of it's going to be down to a major news org like the BBC being much more careful to make sure he's really dead. With Wikipedia, that's a fuck-up, but almost anyone can make it, and it can easily be undone. With the BBC, that kind of fuck-up would haunt them for years. I've also read that Sky News may have been the first to confirm his death. Looking at that edit, the editor didn't mention a source; they just "was"d him. Bad practice by Wikipedia's standards but worked out in the end.
I think it's a point of pride that we can be so up-to-date, but as a tertiary source, we rely on the credibility of secondary sources like the BBC to have any semblance of usability and order. I think we're running different races, and we couldn't run ours if they didn't run theirs.
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In any of these “Nobody: “ memes you can crop that line and it changes very little. It’s a shit format imo.
There are so many bad meme usages now I just want to let the world burn because I’ll be dead soon.
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The fuck does “nobody” add to this?
Hijacking top comment to add this relevant information:
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How do you feel about the Foundation using most of the money on things that are Wikipedia and then making highly misleading statements when they do fundraising drives on Wikipedia?
most of the money on things that are Wikipedia
Assuming you meant "aren't Wikipedia", there are a few aspects to this.
- These are the Wikimedia Foundation's 2024 financial statements.
- You can see how it's organized here.
- Here's a table of salaries. CEO Katherine Maher's salary is about $790,000, which is very average for this role. Other salaries look average as well.
- I permanently hide donation drive banners in my preferences and so can't speak to how they've been lately (read: last 8-ish years). I remember them being terrible. Genuinely hated them.
- Wikimedia is a lot bigger than just the English Wikipedia; it's a movement, and one that's been highly successful in a way it couldn't have been just through volunteer work. For example, I heavily encourage you to check out Wikipedia's sister projects sometime. Not all of them are created equal, but Wiktionary for example to me is the best single dictionary in the world. I wish many of these received similar levels of appreciation to Wikipedia. And far from being tacked-on side projects, most of these factor into a coherent ecosystem in their own way.
- The WMF's legal team in my eyes especially has been phenomenal. The movement I volunteer so many hours for would be heavily fractured and probably dead in the water if it weren't for them.
- On top of obvious things like developing MediaWiki, I actively want the WMF to be doing outreach through programs like grants. If the WMF just sits by and coasts on hosting costs and maybe MediaWiki bug fixes, it will die. Figuring out how to make editing more inviting, more accessible, and more efficient is crucial not just to keeping Wikipedia alive but its sister projects and even to improving other non-WMF wikis.
In summary, I don't like the banners but have seen zero issue with how they handle finances. The money donated that's used beyond maintaining a skeleton crew and keeping the lights on is profoundly useful to me as an editor and directly helps me write the articles that the people donating expect their money to go to.
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There are a few famous anti abortion people that "cancelled" or "abandoned" some business or other thing. I'll sometimes edit it to say, "aborted".
